On Jul 18, 2010, at 8:15 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
Brian,
I hear what you are saying about the natural earth having bland data
to work with.
I suggest that since we haven't much time for this release, go with
the natural earth dataset, and potentially get a better dataset with
the next release.
Best to go for the simple and achievable right now, and improve later.
true
and, minutes ago, Mark Leslie initiated a contact with someone in Spain
regarding a decent data set...
how about...
I go ahead and add Natural Earth..
it will be there in any event, with little penalty, since its only 12MB
then in the next few days
if something spanish-friendy shows up, we can work with that
Somehow, parcel records from Oregon seem uniquely out of place for
Barcelona
:-)
best regards from Berkeley
-Brian
On 19/07/10 11:32, Brian Hamlin wrote:
Hi All-
I am looking at the 10m Natural Earth vectors as a PostGIS
database..
its very compact.. perhaps 12 MB when loaded.. on the other hand,
there aren't a lot of interesting corners in there, from a data point
of view..
(not too surprising, since it is a visual treatment, first and
foremost)
The basic dataset in the examples from the LiveDVD v3 was 'medford'
Medford is a rich, detailed and interesting set.. about 70-80MB when
loaded..
At some point soon, the examples, quickstart, or equivalent are
going to have to be written for the LiveDVD v4 such that it refers to
something in PostGIS. Right now we have the osm_local, Barcelona,
which, while great for rendering via Mapnik, is a particularly poor
choice for general PostGIS demonstration..
So, I am wondering aloud what set(s) to use...
(I am not going to dig up some cool Spain oriented set in time, of
that I am sure..)
(the Sydney set from v3 is not worth re-using)
-Brian
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